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ducksaplenty

@ducksaplenty

An Oregon duck who landed on one of Minnesota's 10,000 lakes and stayed

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@ducksaplenty Jan 17, 2020, 3:28 PM UTC

Dark

Life or bones or thoughts that need immediate thinking exhume me from sleep, unwilling, a pre-dawn deposit on the hard, frozen ground of a January morning. I make coffee and sit down to work, to star…

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@ducksaplenty Sep 29, 2019, 2:48 AM UTC

Wing It Banana Bran Muffins

To wing it or to follow a recipe, this is the question. When I was growing up in Portland, Oregon in the 1970’s, the fifth of five kids in an under-paid college professor’s motley family, I learned t…

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@ducksaplenty Sep 23, 2019, 1:34 AM UTC

I Kept the Jacket, Like You do Sometimes

Stuff. My stuff, my husband’s stuff, my grown kids’ stuff, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about stuff, that we have too much of it, and how that happened, and perhaps most importantly what I’m going…

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@ducksaplenty Sep 20, 2019, 11:16 AM UTC

Sweet potato toast with a lotta ricotta

So I have been wanting to try sweet potato toast (all the cool kids are doing it) and darned if it isn't quite tasty. Find a really big yam or sweet potato, cut it in quarter inch planks and toast it…

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@ducksaplenty Apr 23, 2019, 1:45 PM UTC

Thank you Marie Curie

Got the old mammogram this morning. Stopping to thank Marie Curie for her work with radium and radioactivity. Her work lead directly to the prevention possible through mammograms. Also, coincidentall…

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@ducksaplenty Mar 6, 2019, 3:01 AM UTC

My Actifit Report Card: March 5 2019

Ok, getting serious about this fitness thing. My honey and I had a quiet evening planned together tonight, the house all to ourselves for once. So we both had to fit in fitness during the day instead…

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@ducksaplenty Jan 17, 2019, 5:15 AM UTC

My Actifit Report Card: January 16 2019

Fitbit says 10,816. Gotta start carrying my phone at all times. Or perhaps I should wear it as a hat? Has anyone heard when Actifit is going to sync with Fitbit for iOS devices? 8897 Aerobics

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@ducksaplenty Jan 16, 2019, 5:18 AM UTC

My Actifit Report Card: January 15 2019

Missed 10,000 steps today by several hundred, but there is this: I spent two hours on the phone with my oldest friend. Not all that we do for ourselves should be about fitness of the body. Some shoul…

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@ducksaplenty Jan 12, 2019, 4:33 AM UTC

My Actifit Report Card: January 11 2019

It was a long hard slog to 10,000 steps today. Long day at work, one employee was needy, one was snarky, lots to do for the family, the usual. But walking helped. A lot. Walking can’t turn a horrible…

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@ducksaplenty Jan 11, 2019, 4:25 AM UTC

My Actifit Report Card: January 10 2019

Nice step count today for me! Went to the local rec center with my husband @preparedwombat and my sister @jayna. We’re in Minnesota. It’s cold here, so having a great place to walk at night is a big…

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